X10: Creating the next high-computing programming language

Vijay Saraswat

Programming languages are enduring animals. The best ones instruct computers to do complex computations until another language comes along that can handle more complexity, greater concurrency.

IBM computer scientist Vijay Saraswat is part of a team that is developing a programming language called X10 that is slated to work on a number of super-fast hardware architectures, including the IBM Power7 chip.

In this episode of Open Collaborative Research, Vijay gives an overview of the project.

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Series producer: Barbara Finkelstein
Music: Phat n Sazzy by The Dejunair Project

Last updated on May 22, 2008